c# .NET 4.5 HttpWebRequest for portable crossplatforms

Question

I cannot change user agent of HttpWebRequest:

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
request.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent] = "test";

Always throw exception. Someone have idea how solve this?

Answer 1

You need to use request.UserAgent property to set the user agent.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.useragent(v=vs.100).aspx